Dr Dominic Thomas-James read law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London before earning an M.Phil., and Ph.D., at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. A barrister and door tenant at Goldsmith Chambers, he was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. Dr Thomas-James leads the financial crime programme at the London School of Economics and continues to teach at the University of Cambridge – Professional and Continuing Education. He is a Global Justice Fellow at Yale University, USA, and an Honorary Professor at North-West University, South Africa. Dr Thomas-James is author of the book Offshore Financial Centres and the Law (Routledge) and has published widely in the field of financial crime, including numerous book chapters, journal articles, and practitioner-focused works. He is Deputy General Editor of The International Journal of Economic Crime (Edward Elgar) and a regular contributor to The Company Lawyer (Sweet & Maxwell). He serves as Consultant and Director of Publications to ICC FraudNet, where he is editor of the Global Annual Report on Fraud and Asset Recovery. Dr Thomas-James's broader international advisory work includes advising governments, intergovernmental bodies, international organisations and private sector institutions on financial crime, regulatory and compliance initiatives. He is a senior organiser of the annual International Symposium on Economic Crime at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he chairs a specialist programme on the Offshore World, and is a Special Adviser (International Anti-Corruption Court Initiative) to Integrity Initiatives International.